Who is responsible for removing tissues from pockets before washing clothes?

[RealhousewifeofStoke]

The tissue user who puts them into the pocket or the person loading the washing machine?

Ps I will only be sharing this thread with DH if everyone agrees with me

The wearer, but if an adult they should wash their own clothes anyway.

The wearer of the clothes should be responsible for checking pockets before they go in the wash basket.
However, I do always check before I put a wash on because I don’t want shredded white tissue all over my clothes and a clogged up washing machine.
If I discover a tissue or anything else in the pockets I simply leave them in the dirty pile in the wash basket.
When DH / DS asks why their stuff hasn’t been washed I tell them it’s because they weren’t ‘machine ready,.
Funny enough, they rarely do it now 😉

The owner of the clothes is responsible. They should be checking before their dirty clothes are put into laundry bin. Mind you I would make an exception for money especially now notes are plastic. I miss the days when hanging out clothes notes would fall out of pockets and it's finders keepers as far as I'm concerned

The owner of the pockets is responsible for the emptying thereof. The person providing laundry service is only responsible for laundering.

The personal who left the tissue in the pocket is also responsible for picking off tissue bits and rewashing of a load. Usually sorts them out to remember next time.

The trick is to think of laundry duty as providing a service. If you sent your laundry off with a diamond necklace in one pocket, and £100 cash in the other, and your passport in the back pocket, could you reasonably expect to get it all back because you were too lazy to take care? No. So why should you expect the person who lives with you to be more of a servant than a paid-for service? Disrespectful.

Who put them in the wash basket or dumped them in front of the washing machine. That’s who is to blame.
I don’t collectively pick up my dhs clothes as I’m not his maid. He washes his clothes anyway, but if he throws them in the wash with a tissue, it’s his own bloody fault.

Whoever wore the clothes.

I live alone so it’s only my tissues to think about.

I frequently miss them or forget to look and end up with tissue covered clothes 😔

Person wearing the clothes it’s their dirty hanky

I thought it was common practice for women on MN to go through their husbands pockets at every conceivable opportunity.

Seriously this subject had me literally foaming at the mouth when I was married. Entire wash loads covered in fucking tissues which of course I then had to roller off with a lint roller inside and out because he was too lazy.
An adult should make sure their pockets are empty before putting their clothes in the washing pile.
You are entitled to throw an entire load of washing in the trash if it is covered with tissues. Or murder him horribly - your choice.

Once we've established that the tissue owner removes it, can someone go and scream tell FIL. Not only does he expect his washing doing, he leaves thousands of tissue. I might remove my DD's tissues. I am most certainly not rooting through FIL's pocket for snotty surprises.

All clothing must be fully prepared for washing before it enters the laundry hamper. Pockets will never be checked. Special care items will not be identified. The person who used the clothing is solely responsible.

It is completely inefficient for the person washing the laundry to inspect every item.

I don’t mix family laundry so that I don’t have to sort it after it is clean, but it also has the perk of any damage done by a poor prepper is solely contained to that individual’s wardrobe.

Clearly I have thoughts...

You know what is the worst, when you wash a cat bed and don’t realize that somehow a cat wedged a fake moss ball into the crevice of the cat bed. Since the pieces are tiny and while wet extremely dark, you don’t notice until after you wash the next load, your own clothing. I shook out each piece of clothing to get off as much moss as possible, but it took me a solid hour after that to clean the machine so I could rewash the clothes. I’ll take tissues any day.

Absolutely the wearer! I don’t mind checking for primary aged children but take no responsibility after that. Gross for an adult to expect another adult to handle their used tissues. The dryer gets off most of the fluff if one gets through, and another pro of those nice aloe vera tissues is that they tend to stay in one piece.

Personally, I have encouraged my DC to put dirty tissues in the bin. DH would never put them in his pocket, we all believe this is gross!

Surely the person wearing them is the same person that is washing them, unless they are a young child?

@FabulousIAm

Surely the person wearing them is the same person that is washing them, unless they are a young child?

God no. If I don't do DH's laundry he might stop doing all the cleaning. And I don't clean.

The one washing the clothes. Its pretty standard that you check the pockets before hand.

@FabulousIAm

Surely the person wearing them is the same person that is washing them, unless they are a young child?

No, of course not.

It's ecologically bad to run multiple small loads, so of course we aggregate.

And of course we like to keep our fuel bills as low as possible.

Oo I'd say both! The tissue user should try and remember to remove but mistakes will always happen so the person putting it in the wash should always check. I'd be annoyed if DH always had tissues in his pocket and expected me to remove them but he doesn't so I dont mind rescuing the occasional pen drive etc.

It's the wearer's responsibility in our house.

The person who wore the clothes is responsible. Ideally, that would also be the person washing the clothes...

Since it's not an ideal world, the person doing the washing could do a feel around if she wasn't completely confident about exploding pens or little flecks of tissue everywhere, including on my clothes. Also to find money, small tech stuff, ID, keys, etc. All money found in pockets in my house is kept by me.

@Custardo

the person putting in washing machine woud empty pockets, take off belts etc.

if it irks you muchly, just wash your own stuff and some of the kids, and let dh wash his own stuff and some of the kids - thats what we did

Same here. Absolute bliss. But on MN its 😱 if you do your own laundry.

Whoever put the clothes in the laundry basket and thus 'presented' them for washing.

And the solution is...

The balsam impregnated tissues which stay whole and do not dissolve into thousands of tiny pieces of fluff.